Category: Basketball Manager

Yanni Hufnagel great achievements in Nevada Wolf Pack team prove a positive change in the coaching of the basketball game. Yanni grew up in Scarsdale, New York city. When he was young, he would read all books that entailed coaching and relate the content in it with the game. He also worked as an announcer for a local sports show. His partner had a high belief that Yanni could either become a basketball coach or even an announcer in the industry.

Yanni worked as a basketball director back at the Cornell University. He later moved to the NJ Nets for an internship. After graduating from his studies, he was given an offer to coach in Oklahoma. It was after one of his old friend in New Jersey Nets connected him with his past employer, Jeff Capel. Capel had been looking for a graduate who would assist him in coaching. Yanni managed to pass the interview and immediately was offered the assistant position.

After a short while, Capel introduced Yanni to the head coach at the Harvard University. Fortunately, he was hired as an assistant volunteer coach where his first salary was the same to that of an intern. When he scooped the position, he started bringing all round players to his team.

About Yanni Hufnagel

Yanni Hufnagel has been an icon in the renowned game. Yanni has a fascination educational background since he studied industrial and labor relations and has a degree. He also holds a master in higher adult education from Oklahoma. His coaching career has been on the top flight either working as a coach or an assistant in the games. Many people know him for his recruiting skills and prowess.

Previously, he served as an assistant coach in California and Harvard. His success was evident when he was voted by his basketball age mates in the CBC sports college as the most promising assistant coach in the survey. He also helped in coaching stars such as Jeremy Lin and Saunders from the Harvard.

Yanni Hufnagel impressed Blake Griffin during his time in Oklahoma. Yanni Hufnagel was just an unpaid graduate assistant at the time, but he was there to open the gym early for the NBA superstar, rebound for him during shooting practice and he always made himself available to close the gym late after the big man got some extra work.

Jeremy Lin was at Harvard during Yanni Hufnagel’s time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The young assistant coach was capable of recruiting such a good class that Harvard won its first Ivy League championship during Yanni Hufnagel’s four-year tenure. The team went 79-24, winning a school record 26 games in 2011 and becoming nationally ranked for the first time.

Yanni Hufnagel was named by a CBS Sports poll as the assistant coach with best recruiting skills that would likely lead to massive success. He has worked all over the country in schools like Villanova, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Nevada at Reno. He is responsible for one of the nation’s best recruiting classes at UC Berkeley. He was able to raise Villanova’s three-point percentage with a stunningly good recruiting class that included two NBA draft picks. And only time will tell how he is benefiting the University of Nevada at Reno rights now.

Yanni Hufnagel is only in his early 30s. He is following the same career trajectory as Brad Stevens who is now serving as head coach of the Boston Celtics. But the young college coach has been able to do all of this after being cut by his own high school varsity basketball team. Coaching is his way of participating in his favorite game.